If Only
by Mary Etta Metcalf
dreams flow through my head of days past
when youth could do no wrong…life wadreams s good
the freedom felt…the acts performed…were they wrong
how different life would have been…if only i had known
actions perceived…ideas run rampant…mind speeding on
falling into the trap only life seemed to know about
continuing on as if nothing was wrong…nothing at all
how different life would have been…if only i had known
things omitted in childhood…youth in the dark
as life raced forward as a speeding train out of control
and i asked…is there no end…where is the light
how different life would have been…if only i had known
i tried to put the breaks on…it broke in my hands
i cried at the fear that rose within me
groping my way through life…crying…what is going on
how different life would have been…if only i had known
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Lord Of My Life by Rabindranath Tagore
- Blue Glass by Ross D Tyler
- Thrushes by Ted Hughes
- The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- Early Love
- Springfield Magical by Vachel Lindsay
- Character Of The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- Низами Гянджеви – День мой благословен
- Владимир Британишский – Крепостная интеллигенция
- Вера Звягинцева – Околдовано сердце моё
- Robert Burns: The Henpecked Husband:
- A Hymn to Love by Robert Herrick
- Prayer For Lightning poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
